Democrat of the Week: Patrick J. Murphy

This week's "Democrat of the Week" award goes to Patrick J. Murphy, a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Despite being a freshman congressman from a swing district, Rep. Murphy did not cave in to White House pressure on the FISA amendment - he voted against the bill, and even more than that, was passionately opposed. If only other moderate Democrats had shown the same degree of political courage, we could have fought off this blow to our civil liberties. Make no mistake - not a single Democrat actually thought that the White House version of the surveillance bill was better than the Democratic version. Everyone thought that the White House version gutted the FISA protection and gave too much authority to the Attorney General. Even so, many Democrats feared being called "weak on terror" should they vote against what the White House wanted. Rep. Murphy was not one of them, and has earned great esteem in the eyes of those of us who value our civil liberties.

Democrat of the Week: Senator Chris Dodd

The clip below speaks for itself. The politics of Daily Kos are way to the left of me, but O'Reilly has gone absolutely off the deep end in his histrionic criticism of the "filth" on the site. Has he never used the internet before? Has he never visited a right wing blog before and seen the stuff posted about Hillary?

God forbid people get a little off-color in their passionate advocacy of what they believe politically. If that picture O'Reilly uses offends you in any serious manner, you really need to get out more.

Dodd rips O'Reilly a new one

The clip below is a little older, but I just discovered it. Everytime I see Jim Webb, I think, "He should be the VP nominee." One thing's for sure, he wouldn't be accused of being too timid in the Veep debates.

Jim Webb takes himself off Lindsey Graham's Christmas card list